Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "New video of ex-cop fatally shooting Daunte Wright shown in court l GMA" video.

  1. Yeah...that's a garbage excuse. If you don't know what weapon you're drawing, don't draw it. There's a reason they wear their taser on the opposite hip (which you can see clearly in the video). It's so that they don't accidentally grab one when reaching for the other. She reached her right hand down and grabbed her gun. It was a reaction born of bad weapons training and then bad follow-up practice. She clearly spent way more time practicing her gun draw than her taser draw, which is why her muscle memory caused this to happen. If you spend all of your time practicing to draw your lethal weapon, you won't do the right thing when you need your non-lethal and, as you say, the adrenaline is pumping. Furthermore, people should not be in danger of being negligently killed by police. That is not their purpose. It was more important to violently restrain this person than it was to let him survive the encounter. That's all kinds of wrong. If he got away, so what? I mean that; so what? They had his plate number. They had the make and model of his car. They had his identity. They easily could have called it in and attempted to arrest him later, when it could be handled better. Unfortunately, ego and bad training become key factors. They aren't trained to deescalate and they don't want to go back to the precinct and be teased for letting someone get away. Awww, poor babies. How many people are dead because of pride and bad training? It's not worth it.
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